Liquor-funnel



(No Model.)

J. W. BOLTON.

LIQUOR FUNNEL.

' Pa,tented June 3, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JosErH AEEEN BOLTON, or LEWISTON, MAINE.

LIQUOR-FUNNEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,513, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed December 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat I, JosErH WARREN BOL- TON, of Lewiston, in the county Androscoggin,

of the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Liquor-Funnels; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a frontview, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of a funnel having my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

The funnel is provided with a sustainingsleeve extending down from its body, preferably a short distance below the lower end of its eduction-nose and concentric with such nose. This sleeve is perforated with an' airescape hole or a series of such holes, and it has extending in it from its lower edge up ward a jug-handle-receiving notch. In applying the funnel to a jug, the nose of the funnel being introduced into the mouth of the jug, the notch is to receive and straddle the jughandle sufficiently to allow of the sleeve at its lower edge resting on the body of the jug. In this way the sleeve not only sustains the funnel and relieves its nose from strain in the jug, but centralizes the nose within the mouth of the jug, so as to enable air to escape from the jug through the said mouth and around the nose, while the jug is being charged with liquor, provided such nose, where within the mouth, is corrugated, or has a diameter less than that of the mouth. The openings or per- 1. The liquor-funnel A,provided with asustaining-sleeve, B, extending downward from the body a, and around and below the educt or nose I) of such funnel, and provided with the notch c, to receive a jug-handle, when the sleeve may be on the body, and the educt may be within the mouth of such jug, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The liquor-funnel A,provided with asustaining-sleeve, B, extending downward from the body a, and around and below the nose b of such funnel, and perforated where around the body, and provided with a notch, c, to receive a jug-handle, when the said sleeve may be resting on the body, and the nose may be within the mouth of the jug, all being substantially as represented.

JOSEPH WARREN BOLTON. WVitnesses:

JOHN B. COTTON, SETH M. CARTER. 

